FPA micro spectral imaging of non-Hodgkin lymphomas

A FT-IR microspectroscopy study on reactive lymph nodes and non-Hodgkin lymphomas is reported. Mid infrared absorption spectra collected at diffraction limit spatial resolution from reactive and neoplastic lymph nodes resulted sufficiently different once analysed by multivariate pattern recognition analysis to distinguish tumoral from non tumoral samples. The potential of infrared spectroscopy as a post-operative screening is gained by the use of a multielement Focal Plane Array detector. Spectral differences between normal and malignant spectra were mainly in the methyl stretching and in the low frequency region.